[Wikidata] [CfP] ISWC 2016 - Call for Posters and Demos

2016-06-16 Thread Heiko Paulheim


 15th International Semantic Web Conference
   October 17-21, 2016
   Kobe, Japan
 http://iswc2016.semanticweb.org

 Call for Posters and Demos


The ISWC 2016 Posters and Demonstrations complement the paper tracks of 
the conference and offer an opportunity for presenting late-breaking 
research results, on-going research projects, and speculative or 
innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the Posters and 
Demonstrations encourages presenters and participants to engage in 
discussions about the work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs 
for the future work of the presenters, while offering participants an 
effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends 
and to network with other researchers.


We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Web and which 
address, but are not limited to, the topics of the Research Track; the 
Application Track; and the Resource Track. Technical posters, reports on 
Semantic Web software systems (free or commercial), descriptions of 
completed work, and work in progress are all welcome. Demonstrations are 
intended to showcase innovative Semantic Web related implementations and 
technologies, both in academia and in industry.


We explicitly welcome entries from the industry. However, submissions 
for posters and demos should go beyond pure advertisements of commercial 
software packages and convey a minimal scientific contribution.


Authors of full papers accepted for the Research Track; the Application 
Track; and the Resource Track are explicitly invited to submit a 
demonstration. The submission should be formatted as the other posters 
and demonstrations but must cite the accepted full paper and needs to 
include an explanation of its added value with respect to the conference 
paper. The added value could include: a) extended results and 
experiments not presented in the conference paper for reasons of space, 
or b) a demonstration of a supporting prototype implementation.

Submission Information

Authors must submit a four-page extended abstract for evaluation. All 
submissions will undergo a common review process, including those 
related to already accepted full papers. For demonstrations, authors are 
strongly encouraged to include in their submission a link to where the 
demo (live or recorded video) can be found. They should also make clear 
what exactly will be demonstrated to the participants (e.g., what 
datasets will be used, which functionalities will be shown).


All submissions must be made electronically via the EasyChair conference 
submission system:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2016pd

Submissions must use the PDF file format and must adopt the style of the 
Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science 
(LNCS). Details are provided on Springer's Author Instructions page. 
Submissions that exceed the page limit will be rejected without review. 
For details on the HTML format, see the HTML submission guide.


At least one of the authors must be a registered participant at the 
conference, and attend the Poster/Demo Session to present the work. The 
abstracts of accepted posters and demonstrations will be given to all 
conference attendees and published on the conference web site, but will 
not be published by Springer in the printed conference proceedings. They 
will, however, be compiled into a CEUR-WS Proceedings for easy Web 
retrieval and archival.


Metadata for all successful submissions will be included in the 
conference metadata corpus. Detailed information about metadata creation 
will be provided with the acceptance notification of the successful 
submissions.


As in previous years, student-authors of accepted papers will be able to 
apply for travel support to attend the conference.


Review Criteria

All papers submitted to the Posters & Demos Track will be reviewed by at 
least three program committee members. Decisions about acceptance will 
be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, originality, potential 
significance, relevance, and clarity. The purpose of the track is to 
allow the presentation of preliminary results to the community, provided 
that originality and significance of the contribution are ensured. 
Authors submitting a demo are strongly encouraged to include in the 
paper a pointer to the online demo or video of the application to be 
presented. The absence of a pointer will affect the overall evaluation 
of the paper.


Important Dates

* Poster & Demo Submission: July 7th, 2016
* Notifications: August 7th, 2016
* Camera-Ready Versions: August 30th, 2016
All deadlines are midnight Hawaii time.

Posters and Demos Track Chairs

* Takahiro Kawamura, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
* Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany




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[Wikidata] CfP: Challenges at ESWC 2016

2016-01-27 Thread Heiko Paulheim
 into account the wider ecosystem 
of publications.

http://2016.eswc-conferences.org/assessing-quality-scientific-output-its-ecosystem

schema.org - Bonus Challenge
Rather than create a separate schema.org challenge, we encourage where 
appropriate submissions to other ESWC2016 challenges to consider also 
exploring schema.org's relationship with Linked Data and Semantic Web 
tools, technologies, vocabularies and datasets.

http://2016.eswc-conferences.org/bonus-challenge



CONTACT

ESWC 2016 Challenge Chairs
* Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, Germany (die...@l3s.de)
* Anna Tordai, Elsevier, Netherlands (a.tor...@elsevier.com)


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Prof. Dr. Heiko Paulheim
Data and Web Science Group
University of Mannheim
Phone: +49 621 181 2661
B6, 26, Room C1.09
D-68159 Mannheim

Mail: he...@informatik.uni-mannheim.de
Web: www.heikopaulheim.com


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[Wikidata] CfP: International Workshop on Completing and Debugging the Semantic Web (CODES 2016)

2016-01-26 Thread Heiko Paulheim

CoDeS 2016

International Workshop on
Completing and Debugging the Semantic Web

May 29 or 30, 2016
Heraklion, Greece

http://www.ida.liu.se/~patla00/conferences/CoDeS16/

co-located with ESWC 2016 (http://2016.eswc-conferences.org/)

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Developing ontologies and Semantic Web data sets is not an easy task 
and, as the ontologies and data sets grow in size, they are likely to 
show a number of defects (wrong information as well as omissions). Such 
ontologies and data sets, although often useful, also lead to problems 
when used in semantically-enabled applications. Wrong conclusions may be 
derived or valid conclusions may be missed. Further, during the recent 
years, more and more mappings both between ontologies as well as 
entities in the Linked Open Data cloud have been generated, e.g., using 
ontology alignment and/or entity linking systems, forming a linked 
network of data sets and ontologies. This has led to a new opportunity 
to deal with defects, as links between datasets and ontologies may be 
exploited for debugging, or the interlinks between them. On the other 
hand, it also has introduced a new difficulty as the mappings may not 
always be correct and need to be debugged themselves. Also the linked 
data level may contain wrong information and omissions in the data as 
well as the links.


Defects can take different forms. Syntactic defects are usually easy to 
find and to resolve. Defects regarding style include such things as 
unintended redundancy. More interesting and severe defects are the 
modeling defects which require domain knowledge to detect and resolve 
such as defects in the structure, and semantic defects such as 
unsatisfiable concepts and inconsistent ontologies.



Topics of interest

This workshop intends to be a forum where issues related to completing 
and debugging the Semantic Web are discussed. Topics of interest 
include, but are not limited to:

* detecting and repairing defects in ontologies
* detecting and repairing defects in linked data
* detecting and repairing defects in mappings
* debugging and completing ontology networks and modular ontologies
* ontology alignment and repair of alignments
* justifications, belief revision, ontology patterns for debugging
* user support for ontology debugging and completion
* visualization and user interfaces for debugging and completion
* case studies


Important dates
* Submission: March 4, 2016
* Notification: April 1, 2016
* Camera-ready: April 15, 2016
* Workshop: May 29 or 30, 2016

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